我知道这是一个老问题，但这里有一个很好的解决方案:

public static string Truncate(this string text, int maxLength, string suffix = "...")
{
    string str = text;
    if (maxLength > 0)
    {
        int length = maxLength - suffix.Length;
        if (length <= 0)
        {
            return str;
        }
        if ((text != null) && (text.Length > maxLength))
        {
            return (text.Substring(0, length).TrimEnd(new char[0]) + suffix);
        }
    }
    return str;
}

var myString = "hello world"
var myTruncatedString = myString.Truncate(4);

返回:你好……

不幸的是，字符串上没有Truncate()方法。你必须自己写出这种逻辑。然而，你能做的是把它包装在一个扩展方法中，这样你就不必到处复制它:

public static class StringExt
{
    public static string Truncate(this string value, int maxLength)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value)) return value;
        return value.Length <= maxLength ? value : value.Substring(0, maxLength); 
    }
}

现在我们可以这样写:

var someString = "...";
someString = someString.Truncate(2);

可选的后缀和c#8可空引用类型。

public static class StringExt
{
    public static string? Truncate(this string? value, int maxLength, string truncationSuffix = "…")
    {
        return value?.Length > maxLength
            ? value.Substring(0, maxLength) + truncationSuffix
            : value;
    }
}

写:

"abc".Truncate(2);          // "ab…"
"abc".Truncate(3);          // "abc"
((string)null).Truncate(3); // null

这是我通常使用的代码:

string getSubString(string value, int index, int length)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value) || value.Length <= length)
            {
                return value;
            }
            System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
            for (int i = index; i < length; i++)
            {
                sb.AppendLine(value[i].ToString());
            }
            return sb.ToString();
        }

TruncateString

public static string _TruncateString(string input, int charaterlimit)
{
    int characterLimit = charaterlimit;
    string output = input;

    // Check if the string is longer than the allowed amount
    // otherwise do nothing
    if (output.Length > characterLimit && characterLimit > 0)
    {
        // cut the string down to the maximum number of characters
        output = output.Substring(0, characterLimit);
        // Check if the character right after the truncate point was a space
        // if not, we are in the middle of a word and need to remove the rest of it
        if (input.Substring(output.Length, 1) != " ")
        {
            int LastSpace = output.LastIndexOf(" ");

            // if we found a space then, cut back to that space
            if (LastSpace != -1)
            {
                output = output.Substring(0, LastSpace);
            }
        }
        // Finally, add the "..."
        output += "...";
    }
    return output;
}

截断字符串

public static string TruncateText(string strText, int intLength)
{
    if (!(string.IsNullOrEmpty(strText)))
    {                                
        // split the text.
        var words = strText.Split(' ');

        // calculate the number of words
        // based on the provided characters length 
        // use an average of 7.6 chars per word.
        int wordLength = Convert.ToInt32(Math.Ceiling(intLength / 7.6));

        // if the text is shorter than the length,
        // display the text without changing it.
        if (words.Length <= wordLength)
            return strText.Trim();                

        // put together a shorter text
        // based on the number of words
        return string.Join(" ", words.Take(wordLength)) + " ...".Trim();
    }
        else
        {
            return "";
        }            
    }

下面是c# 9的一行代码:

public static string Truncate(this string value, int maxLength) => value is null or "" || value.Length <= maxLength ? value : value[..maxLength];